English
transcriptosome
From transcript + -o- + -some.
Formed from transcript + -o- + -some
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō ‘to carve’
Latin scrībō ‘to write’
Latin trānscrībō ‘to transfer in writing, copy off, transcribe’
Latin transcriptum
English transcript
Today it means
noun A holocomplex of proteins involved in the transcription of nucleic acid
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “transcriptosome”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / transcriptosome